UC Berkeley alumni Jessica Felber and Brian Maissy dismissed their lawsuit accusing the campus and UC system of failure to mitigate a hostile climate against Jewish students during demonstrations in March 2010, the campus announced Wednesday.

The lawsuit was settled with the agreement that the university will consider potential changes to its policies regarding campus protests after collecting campus opinion. Felber and Maissy will receive no monetary compensation or attorney reimbursements.

The suit stems from an incident during which Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Muslim Student Association established a mock checkpoint that included fake barbed wire and AK-47 firearms at a 2010 Apartheid Week event. The plaintiffs alleged that Husam Zakharia, campus alumnus and former leader of SJP, rammed Felber — who was a member of Tikvah Students for Israel — with a shopping cart. Felber consequently sought medical treatment and a restraining order against Zakharia.

The legal complaint, filed in March 2011, was dismissed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in December 2011.

“The allegations in the Felber lawsuit and the strategy behind bringing the suit were carefully calibrated to defame and harass Arab and Muslim student groups at Cal,” said Mohamed Haimoud, president of Cal MSA, in a press release issued Friday by civil rights and student groups applauding the dismissal.

Maissy said the lawsuit was “not entirely successful” because by the time it was concluded, both plaintiffs had graduated and consequently did not have the same power to seek redress from the court.

Because of that limitation, Felber and Maissy’s lawyers — Joel Siegal and Neal Sher — released a Title VI complaint to the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice on Monday. After the court case, according to the complaint, “(they) have become acutely aware of, and have obtained substantial evidence demonstrating, a pervasive hostile environment towards Jews on the campus.”

The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights office confirmed this week that it is investigating the allegations from a complaint filed in July by attorneys representing UC Berkeley alumni Jessica Felber and Brian Maissy, according to the post.

The complaint alleges that the campus has persistently failed to curb anti-semitic behavior from demonstrations like the ones that occur during Israeli Apartheid Weeks, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine. It stated the demonstrations were the result of “unequal enforcement of campus rules and regulations as they relate to groups with an anti-Jewish bias.”

Maissy said he hopes the complaint will lead to an investigation that will cause the university to take more action or lose federal funding.

“The claim that there is a hostile environment for Jewish students at Berkeley is, on its face, entirely unfounded,” stated campus Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard in the release. “The campus takes great pride in its vibrant Hillel chapter, the broad range of other Jewish student groups, our world-class Jewish Studies program, and the recently created Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law at the Berkeley law school.”

But Sher maintains the Apartheid Week event “brings anti-Semitism to full glory.”
“The atmosphere that some of these Jewish kids have been subjected to (is) reminiscent of what went on in Nazi Germany in the 30s,” Sher said. “And the university has the capability to step in and to stop this, but it hasn’t in years.”

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Why do all great things have unforeseen consequences? Like acne medicine that makes you bleed from the ass, these fuckers haven't shut the fuck up since the holocaust....
Fuck it it's worth it, that shit was hilarious.